"Think of the internet as a weapon
on the table. Either you pick it up or your competitor does, but somebody
is going to get killed"

The following articles detail a Monsanto dirty
tricks campaign waged against the company's scientific and environmental
critics.

In one instance, Monsanto and its PR proxies ran
a covert campaign of character assassination against two University of
California, Berkeley scientists after they published research in the science
journal Nature demonstrating GM contamination of Mexican maize. The campaign
culminated in the journal retracting the research even though a majority
of the journal's own peer reviewers did not support such a retraction.

In another instance, Monsanto's poison pen campaign
triggered a libel case that reached the High Court in London. The campaign
of smears, involving cyberattacks posted on messageboards, listservs and
front websites, it emerges, involved the direct participation not only
of Monsanto's Washington based PR firm - The Bivings Group - but of Monsanto
itself.

THE COVERT BIOTECH WARThe battle to put a corporate GM padlock
on our foodchain is being fought on the net - The Guardian, 19 November
2002